SEE ALSO

HISTORY

The wi device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0. OpenBSD support was
added in OpenBSD 2.6.

AUTHORS

The wi driver was written by Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu> and port-
ed to OpenBSD by
Niklas Hallqvist <niklas@appli.se>.

CAVEATS

The original Lucent WaveLAN cards usually default to channel 3; newer
cards use channel 10 by default. Non-Lucent cards vary, for instance the
Addtron cards use channel 11 by default. See wicontrol(8) for information
on how to change the channel.
Not all 3.3V wi PCMCIA cards work.
IBSS creation does not currently work with Symbol cards.
The host-based access point mode on the Intersil PRISM cards has bugs
when used with firmware versions prior to 0.8.3 and is completely unus-
able with firmware versions prior to 0.8.0 and 1.4.0-1.4.2.
Software WEP is currently only supported in HostAP and BSS modes. Furth-
ermore, Software WEP is currently incapable of decrypting fragmented
frames. Lucent-based cards using firmware 8.10 and above fragment en-
crypted frames sent at 11Mbps. To work around this, Lucent clients with
this firmware revision connecting to a HostAP server should use a 2Mbps
connection or upgrade their firmware to version 8.72.
HostAP mode doesn't support WDS or power saving. Clients attempting to
use power saving mode may experience significant packet loss (disabling
power saving on the client will fix this).
Support for USB devices is buggy. HostAP mode and AP scanning are not
currently supported with USB devices.
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